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Think before adding a canned comment in review if there's already a canned comment from review

TL;DR: If there's already a canned comment on the post you're reviewing, just upvote it, don't post another canned comment. Background Some review queues, such as Low Quality Posts, have the option to ...
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Ghosted for a few minutes by a Suggested Edit?

Recently, I expanded the Review Queue list and saw a red dot on the Suggested Edits queue (if you don't know, that means that it's not empty), so I clicked on it (naturally). But as I was reviewing, I ...
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Why was this edit to clarify a chessboard rejected?

In https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/46838, I replaced a weird pseudo-3D chessboard that was hard to read with a more readable one from the replayer that chess.stackexchange....
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Are there review audits on this site? [duplicate]

There were past meta questions about review audits on this site, but are there any more audits now? I haven’t encountered one yet.
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Please reopen my puzzle

Please reopen my puzzle. The goal of the puzzle is clearly defined in the title. I spent an hour designing this puzzle. I know it's an odd looking puzzle but I assure you that the puzzle is solvable ...
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Was the reputation requirement for review tasks changed?

I can't access review tasks anymore: Is this a bug? Was the rep required for tasks changed? The tab works fine on Chess.SE
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Same post for review in First Posts and Late Answers

I just reviewed the same post in both First Posts and Late Answers. Does this happen to any late answer posted by a new user?
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my review of the proposed 'honeypot' tag

as can seen here: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/tags/honeypot/info I have rejected on the grounds that this tag will be deleted soon. I am wondering whether this is the general consensus?
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Edit view without highlighting

So I was recently reviewing a suggested edit, and it said: Included spoiler tags (hopefully got it right) Well, I hoped they got it right too. I went to click Accept anyway, and crossed my fingers, ...
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Why did I fail this audit?

I'm not sure if the audit system is supposed to work like this or not, but I was reviewing the first posts queue, and was shown what appeared to be a first post by a new user. I opened the question in ...
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Do we need review audits on Puzzling?

This is a follow-up to Why do we have review audits?, in which I commented on the weirdness of having review audits on Puzzling when they're otherwise reserved for the largest SE sites. In that post, ...
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How does the first post review queue work on this site?

Today I came across some low quality posts, answering this question. The members seem to be users since today. Why did their posts not land in the First Posts review queue, as on other (say SO) SE ...
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Why do we have review audits?

This main meta post tells us that the only Stack Exchange sites with a review audit system are: Stack Overflow Server Fault Super User Programmers Ask Ubuntu Mathematics Puzzling These are six of ...
Rand al'Thor's user avatar
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Will our new sandbox cause problems with review audits?

For those of us with 500+ & -2000 reputation, there are two review queues open: First Posts, and Late Answers. The LA I;m not worried about, but sometimes, in the FP queue, we have questions that ...
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What should I do with this audit? Is it a bug?

While reviewing new posts I found a very bad quality post. There was nothing to edit (it was nonsense) so I tried to flag it as "very low quality" but it told me I have already raised that ...
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What to do if you notice blatantly "wrong" reviews?

I was absent-mindedly going through reviews and I noticed someone accept an edit that unambiguously added nothing useful to a tag wiki. What should I do about it? Is there any way to privately contact ...
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Do I ever stop getting review tests?

I recently made it over 1k rep and unlocked all types of reviews, so I've been doing a bit of reviewing. At any given time there are maybe 3 or 4 reviews to do max, but almost every time I do any more ...
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Proper review policy for Low Quality Posts

Recently, this review has popped up with some controversy surrounding it. This controversy obscured the actual question behind the review, so I'd like to ask the question here. While the answer wasn'...
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How do I learn good reviewing?

I've been a member of PSE (and SE in general) for a little over a month now, and I'm starting to look into doing reviews. I took a look at it when I first got the permissions to do it, but there haven'...
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Banned from review queues?

So today I went to check the review queues, as per usual, and found the following message: Please take more time when reviewing in the future. Take a moment to look through your previous reviews to ...
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Why am I blocked from reviewing?

I wanted to do some reviewing, when I got the following message: You have made too many incorrect reviews. Take a break and come back in 3 days. Why did I get this message, and how can I find out ...
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Top bar review counter isn't updating

I've encountered some odd behavior on the main site, and it's not something I've seen before. Here's what I see: Normally this wouldn't be an issue, but it's been vacillating between 10 and 13 for a ...
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